REPORTS detailing how ethnicity and religion influence the appointment of principal officers of universities and selection of applicants for top university courses, is a sad commentary on Nigeria. The castigating report did not only expose the...

SOMETHING significant happened in the country the other day, and almost went unnoticed. When President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three north eastern states, he said the nation was at war. Quite promptly, troops on air...

THE recent abduction of 92 year-old elder statesman, Shettima Ali Munguno from a mosque was one episode in the catalogue of kidnappings in Nigeria, that not only shocked all sensibilities, violated the humanity of all as all kidnappings, but also...

AFTER gushing crude oil for some 50 years, the oil wells in the Delta State communities in Itsekiri, Ijaw, Urhobo, Isoko and Ndokwa areas are fast approaching their sunset. They have become marginal oil producers from which the international...

ENDLESS wars and ethnic conflicts, inept leadership, corruption, political instability, poverty and economic mismanagement. The list is endless of the woes that have befallen much of Africa post-independence. These factors have, of course, fueled...

WHEN President Goodluck Jonathan first made the curious proposal of a single term tenure for elected chief executives at federal and state levels, it was roundly condemned for its tenuousness and undue distractions from serious governance. Two...